Quantum Brilliance advances quantum computing development with NVIDIA

Canberra-based Quantum Brilliance has announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to accelerate the development of the world’s first hybrid quantum-classical computing platform.

Announced at Q2B Tokyo, NVIDIA’s QODA is designed to provide a uniform environment to connect quantum processors and traditional computers that will help scale quantum adoption for enterprise and edge applications. Working with NVIDIA computer processors and QODA, Quantum Brilliance’s software and applications team will build quantum emulators that mimic the nitrogen-vacancy centres in the company’s diamond-based quantum computers to enable efficient simulations of increasingly larger numbers of qubits.

“NVIDIA revolutionised high performance computing, and its new QODA platform is a bold step forward in innovating the quantum industry as well,” said Dr. Marcus Doherty, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Quantum Brilliance, a leading developer of quantum computing products and solutions.

“Our unique room-temperature diamond quantum microprocessor exploits this hybrid approach and will add a critical new element to the HPC and embedded computing landscape,” he added. “It is essential that near-term quantum computing requires coupling of classical and quantum hardware to realize the technology’s potential. This allows sources of classical computing power such as an NVIDIA graphics processing unit (GPU) to be much closer to the quantum processing unit (QPU). The NVIDIA QODA platform provides the unifying framework for this vision.”

Nvidia designs and sells GPUs for gaming, cryptocurrency mining, and professional applications, as well as chip systems for use in vehicles, robotics, and other tools.

“An increasing number of researchers worldwide believe that scientific breakthroughs will occur with hybrid solutions combining classical computing with quantum computing,” said Tim Costa, director of HPC and Quantum Computing Products at NVIDIA.

“In addition to emulators, Quantum Brilliance is leveraging its qbOS software development kit to develop flagship applications focused on massive parallelisation of quantum computers for molecular simulations, as well as edge applications for signal processing such as speech-to-text conversion. The NVIDIA QODA platform will accelerate the progress of these applications and enable customers and partners to assess their performance,” said Dr. Mark Mattingley-Scott, General Manager, Quantum Brilliance EMEA.